Provisional Programme
(NOTE: This programme is subject to change)
Wednesday 15th February
9.30-11.00: Parallel Session 1
Session 1A, Room 432: Conceptual and Philosophical Approaches I
Chair: Tul’si Bhambry (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies[UK])
- Jonathan Baldwin (Royal Holloway, University of London [UK]): ‘Crisis as historical
narrative and its conceptual qualities’
- Yvonne Pörzgen (University of Bremen [Germany]): ‘Stanislav Lem and free will’
- Shane McNally (National University of Ireland, Maynooth [Ireland]): ‘Is Rape Inherent
to Crisis?’
Session 1B, Room 347: Transitional Economies
Chair: Svetlana Makarova (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Julinda Abdi (Bilkent University [Turkey]): ‘Legislative power and economic reform:
New evidence from countries in transition’
- Boyka Boneva (Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens [Greece]):
‘Financial Crisis in Post-Communist Bulgaria – a Prerequisite for Transition or a
Shortcoming of the System?’
Session 1C, Room 433: Welfare and Health
Chair: Chris Gerry (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
[UK])
- Amra Agovic (University of Copenhagen [Denmark]): ‘Public health care crisis: Patent
extension vs Access to Medicines’
- Tamara Popic (European University Institute, Florence [Italy]): ‘Eastern European
Health Care Crisis: the Case of Moral Transformation’
- Arla Gruda (University of Utrecht [Netherlands]): ‘Family patterns and career
development for partnered and single mothers in current Albanian families and the
response of welfare policies from communism to today’
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee Break
Masaryk Senior Common Room (4th Floor, SSEES)
11.30-13.00: Parallel Session 2
Session 2A, Room 432: Conceptual and Philosophical Approaches II - Southeast Europe
Chair: Ognyan Konachev (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Lora Koycheva (Northwestern University [USA]): ‘Ambiguous Order: Crisis, Chaos,
and Post-socialist Worldmaking in Bulgaria’
- Blagovesta Cholova (Université libre de Bruxelles [Belgium]: ‘Perpetual crisis: the
notion of crisis in post-communist transition period- the case of Bulgaria’
- Ana Ljubojevic (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca [Italy]): ‘History in crisis:
Transitional justice and creation of narratives in Serbia and Croatia’
Session 2B, Room 433: The Current Financial Crisis
Chair: Dawid Bunikowski (Torun School of Banking [Poland])
- Monika Kokstaite (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca [Italy]): ‘The Economic
Security of Latvia and Lithuania: Before and After 2008 Financial Crisis’
- Mahmut Kutlukaya (Middle East Technical University, Ankara [Turkey]): ‘A
Comparative Analysis of the Economic Policies of Turkey and Romania in the Face of
the 2008 Global Financial Crisis’
- Oleksandr Tereshchenko (National University of Kiev [Ukraine]): ‘The Ukrainian
currency market response to global financial crisis’
Session 2C, Room 347: Civil Society
Chair: Philipp Köker (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Anneli Kaasa (University of Tartu [Estonia]): ‘Crisis of Values, Beliefs, Trust and
Networks: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe’
- Grzegorz Piotrowski (Collegium, Budapest [Hungary]): ‘Civil society in crisis?’
- Amy Samuelson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee [USA]): ‘Dirty water, burning
water: Addressing the rural sanitation crisis in post-Soviet Moldova’
13.00-14.00: Lunch Break
14.00-15.30: Parallel Session 3
Session 3A, Room 433: Territorial Politics and Security
Chair: Ian Klinke (University College London, Dept. of Geography [UK])
- Patricia Goletz (St. Petersburg State University [Russia]): ‘Abkhazia and South Ossetia
– a political tool for Georgia against Russia that constrains political modernization’
- Paula Ganga (Georgetown University [USA]): ‘Crisis and the creation of a new state.
The 1992/3 civil war in the Republic of Moldova’
- Vendula Vespalcová (Masaryk University, Brno [Czech Republic]: ‘Czech Republic:
Crisis of Security Policy or a Postmodern State?
Session 3B, Room 431: Performing Politics In Poland
Chair: Robin Smith (University of Oxford [UK])
- Agnieszka Balcerzak (Ludwigs-Maximilians University, Munich [Germany]): ‘“We are
the Dwarves!”. Orange Alternative’s humorous and ironic fight against the crisis of
the Communist regime in Poland in the 1980s’
- Julia Halej (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
[UK]): ‘Fighting the Cross and Fighting with the Cross – The Events in Front of the
Presidential Palace in Warsaw, April – September 2010’
Session 3C, Room 347: Russian Economic Thinking
Chair: Eugene Nivorozhkin (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Eva Dabrowska (Hamburg Institute of International Economics [Germany]): ‘The rise
of developmentalism and the crisis of imported economic thinking in Russia’
- Lubov Schukina (Graduate School of Higher Economics, Moscow [Russia]): ‘Corporate
Conflict’s Influence on the Personnel Management Efficiency in Russia’
- Imogen Wade (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘Innovation in Crisis in Russia’
Session 3D, Room 432: The Search For A Solution
Chair: Sarah Young (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Lucinda Critchley (University of Bristol [UK]): ‘Crisis: Dostoevsky and The House of
the Dead’
- Elizabeth A. Harrison (University College London, School of Slavonic and East
European Studies [UK]): ‘Crisis on Crisis: Vladmir Pecherin’s ‘Apologia pro vita mea’’
- Richard Morgan (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘“Poetry” or “Slavery”? Petr Kropotkin and the crisis of the machine’
15.30-16.00: Tea/Coffee Break
Masaryk Senior Common Room (4th Floor, SSEES)
16.00-17.30: Parallel Session 4
Session 4A, Room 347: Economic Dependency
Chair: Slavo Radošević (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Justyna Schulz (University of Bremen [Germany]): ‘The Economic Dependency of
Eastern Europe as a cause of crisis – the case of Poland’
- Milena Kremakova (University of Warwick [UK]): ‘Learning to Sell your Labour’
- Roman Vakulchuk (Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen [Germany]):
‘The Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Central Asia: Assessment of Anti-crisis
Strategies of Economic Actors in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan’
Session 4B, Room 433: Slavery and Prostitution at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Chair: Simon Pawley (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Philippa Hetherington (Harvard University [USA]): ‘Devushki on the Move: ‘White
Slavery’ and the Crisis of the Patriarchal Order in Late Imperial Russia’
- Stanislava Klecáková (University of J. E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem [Czech Rep.]): ‘The
Criminality of Women in a small town at the turn of the 19th century. Gender
struggle at the edge of society’
19.00-20.30: Wine Reception, Roberts Foyer G02, UCL Roberts Building, Malet Place
For participants presenting papers and conference chairs.
Thursday 16th February
9.30-11.00: Parallel Session 5
Session 5A, Room 432: Religious and Ecclesiastical Crises
Chair: Katja Richters (University of Erfurt [Germany])
- Ondrej Matejka (Charles University, Prague [Czech Rep.]): ‘Entering the era of
religious modernity: The Church crisis in Czechoslovakia 1918-1921’
- James Robertson (New York University [USA]): ‘Marxism, culture and spiritual crisis:
Slovene Catholics on the Yugoslav literary left’
- Behram Hasanov (East-West Research Center [Azerbaijan]): ‘Lasting Memory Crisis:
Religion from the Sovietization to the Globalization in Azerbaijan’
Session 5B, Room 347: Crisis and Artistic Reaction
Chair: Alex Boican (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
[UK])
- Anca Baicoianu (University of Bucharest [Romania]): ‘Transition and the rhetoric of
anamnesis: the crisis of representation in contemporary Romanian literature’
- Andrea Virginas (Sapientia University, Cluj [Romania]): ‘Female Traumas as Allegories
of Crisis’
Session 5C, Room 433: World War Two: Traumatic Memory
Chair: Jekaterina Shulga (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Gaelle Fisher (University College London, German Department [UK]): ‘From Survival
to Belonging? War, displacement and memory in the narratives of German speakers
from the Bucovina after 1945’
- Tamas Kisantal (University of Pécs [Hungary]): ‘The Memory of The Holocaust as
Cultural Crisis in Hungarian Discourse’
- Olivia Alford (Jagiellonian University, Krakow [Poland]): ‘Overcoming A Historical
Crisis: The Katyn Massacre in Russia’s Historical Memory of World War Two’
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee Break
Masaryk Senior Common Room (4th Floor, SSEES)
11.30-13.00: Parallel Session 6
Session 6A, Room 431: Hungary and The Crusades
Chair: Martyn Rady (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- James Plumtree (Central European University, Budapest [Hungary]): ‘Wild with
Excess’; the Problem of Hungary in the First Crusade’
- Thomas Smith (Royal Holloway, University of London [UK]): ‘King Andrew II of
Hungary, Pope Honorius III, and the Fifth Crusade: Crisis in the Holy Land, Crisis at
the Curia?’
- Mark Whelan (Royal Holloway, University of London [UK]): ‘Military Crisis and
Response on the Danube frontier: Hungary and the Turkish threat, c. 1390-1440’.
Session 6B, Room 347: Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century
Chair: Irina Marin (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
[UK])
- Vlad Popovici (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca [Romania]): ‘The Recurrence of
Crisis Moments In the Political Organisation of the Romanians from Dualist Hungary
(1869-1910)’
- Szabolcs Somorjai (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest [Hungary]): ‘An experiment
with a modern analysis-method in the past: What the decreasing number of loan
contracts can show us about the financial crises in Hungary in the first half of the
19th century before the birth of the modern financial system’
- Damian Panaitescu (University of Bucharest [Romania]): ‘Crisis in Wallachia’s Public
Finances during 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century’
Session 6C, Room 433: Dealing with the Past in Post-Communist Culture
Chair: Peter Zusi (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
[UK])
- Manuela Marin (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca [Romania]): ‘Continuity or
Crisis? Post-communist Nostalgia in Romania’
- Mark Griffiths (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘Crises Haunting the Streets of Moscow? Spectres of the Magical
Other in post-Soviet Russian Literature’
- Becka McFadden (Goldsmiths’ College, University of London [UK]): ‘Embodying the
Past in Contemporary Czech Theatre’
13.00-14.00: Lunch Break
14.00-15.30: Parallel Session 7
Session 7A, Room 431: Hungary, Transylvania and The Ottoman Empire
Chair: Martyn Rady (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Alexandru Simon (Romanian Academy, Centre for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca
[Romania]): ‘The Habsburgs in Jagiellonian Hungary: Common and Extraordinary
Political Means in a Time of Crisis (1497-1505)’
- Adrian Magina (Museum of Mountainous Banat, Reşiţa [Romania]): ‘Crisis and
collapse of the Hungarian defence system along the Danube at the beginning of the
sixteenth century’
- Florin Ardelean (Romanian Academy, Centre for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca
[Romania]): ‘Between the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire: Political and Social
Crisis in the Transylvanian Principality during the Second Half of the sixteenth
Century’
Session 7B, Room 432: 1939-1945
Chair: Claire Morelon (University of Birmingham [UK])
- Andras Becker (University of Southampton [UK]): ‘Crises in Territorial and Minority
Context: The British reaction to Hungarian revisionism in Ruthenia. A case study of
the Hungarian occupation of Ruthenia and British encirclement policy, March 1939 –
September 1939’
- Malcolm L. G. Spencer (University of Oxford [UK]): ‘Stalinism and the Soviet-Finnish
War of 1939-40: Crisis Management, Censorship and Control’
- Lenka Steflová (Masaryk University, Brno [Czech Rep.]): ‘How tutors responsible for
children in the Jewish Ghetto in Terezín coped with their role and the situation’
Session 7C, Room 347: The Discourse of Political Change
Chair: Andrea Talaber (European University Institute, Florence [Italy])
- Jody Nason (University of Nottingham [UK]): ‘Rewriting the past through the media:
A study of changes to the national historical discourse in Serbia and Croatia’
- Florian Peters (Humboldt University, Berlin [Germany]): ‘Crisis of Memory?
Representations of the Second World War in Late Socialist Poland's historical
culture’
- Vojtech Ripka (University of Oxford [UK]): ‘A tortuous way towards communism’
Session 7D, Room 433: Gender and Inequality in Post-Communist Countries
Chair: Oliwia Berdak (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies)
- Joanna Baginska (University of Reading [UK]): ‘The State’s Attempt at Promoting
Gender Equality in Socialist and Capitalist Poland’
- Yoanna Pavlova (St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia [Bulgaria]): ‘The woman’s role
in the marriage: the situation in Bulgaria after 1989’
15.30-16.00: Tea/Coffee Break
Masaryk Senior Common Room (4th Floor, SSEES)
16:00- 17.30: Parallel Session 8
Session 8A, Room 431: Crown, Church and Estates in Late Medieval and Early Modern
Bohemia
Chair: Zoe Opačíć (Birkbeck College, University of London [UK])
- Eleanor Janega (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘Gather from this who Antichrist is: crisis and eschatology in the
preaching of Jan Milíč z Kroměříže’
- Christopher Nicholson (University College London, School of Slavonic and East
European Studies [UK]): ‘The St. Wenceslas Agreement of 1517: Negotiation and
Compromise between the Bohemian Nobility and Towns’
- Vilem Zábranský (University of J. E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem [Czech Rep.]): ‘Social
upheavals and migration crisis in the first half of seventeenth century: The example
of Prague’
Session 8B, Room 433: The Politics of Recalling the Past
Chair: Harriet Hulme (University College London, French Department [UK])
- Radka Martincová (Masaryk University, Brno [Czech Rep.]): ‘Recalling a Habsburg
Past: A Way to Overcome an Identity Crisis? Case of the Czech Republic’
- Nicoleta Serban (University of Bucharest [Romania]): ‘The Removal of the Monument
dedicated to Lenin in Bucharest’
- Andrea Talaber (European University Institute, Florence [Italy]): ‘Commemorating
crises: Failed revolutions as symbols of national identity’
Session 8C, Room 347: Literature, Intellectuals and The Nation
Chair: Zoran Milutinovic (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Bernarda Katusic (University of Vienna [Austria]): ‘The War Experience In
Contemporary Bosnian Literature’
- Arthur Suciu (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration,
Bucharest [Romania]): ‘Intellectuals through Crises of History: From the Resistance
through Culture to the Withdrawal in Privacy. The Case of Gabriel Liiceanu’
- Oliwia Berdak (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘Crisis of the Mind, Crisis of the Soul: Post-Yugoslav Intellectuals
Writing the Self into the nation’
Session 8D, Room 432: Europe After World War One
Chair: Egbert Klautke (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Claire Morelon (University of Birmingham [UK]): ‘A city in crisis: political legitimacy
and economic collapse in Prague at the end of the First World War, 1917-1920’
- Zoltan Peterecz (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest [Hungary]): ‘Financial and
economic crisis in Hungary in the first few years of the 1920s. Hungary’
- Pinar Üre (London School of Economics [UK]): ‘Nationalism at Deadlock: Mirseyid
Sultan Galiev’s National Communism and Turkic-Muslim responses to the Bolshevik
Revolution’
Friday 17th February
9.30-11.00: Parallel Session 9
Session 9A, Room Foster Court 130: Hungary and Transylvania in the Seventeenth Century
Chair: Christopher Nicholson (University College London, School of Slavonic and East
European Studies [UK])
- Michaela Bodnárová (University of Stuttgart [Germany]): ‘Francis II Rákóczi and
Prussia at the time of Rákóczi’s War for Independence’
- Gelu Fodor (George Baritiu History Institute, Cluj-Napoca [Romania]): ‘The
Principality of Transylvania - Between Autonomy and Crisis at the End of the 17th
Century’
Session 9B, Room 347: Post-Communist Political Crises
Chair: Sean Hanley (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Benjamin G. Engst (University of Göttingen [Germany]) & Philipp Köker (University
College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies [UK]): ‘Constitutional
courts as instruments of intra-executive conflict resolution in Central and Eastern
Europe’
- Elena Simeonova (University of National and World Economy, Sofia [Bulgaria]): ‘The
Political Crises of the Bulgarian Transition: a comparative analysis’
- Mustafa Aslan (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘A Crisis in Consolidation of Democratic Regimes: Populist Radical
Right Parties: The case of ATAKA’
Session 9C, Room 432: Political Crisis and Culture
Chair: Alex Boican (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
[UK])
- Gregor Feindt (University of Bonn [Germany]): ‘Samizdat. Alternative discourse and
the crisis of socialist rule in East Central Europe’
- Dániel Oross (Corvinus University, Budapest [Hungary]) & András Vég (Moholy-Nagy
University of Art and Design, Budapest [Hungary]): ‘Political crisis of Central Europe
represented by Mephisto’
- Zsuzsa Plainer (The Romanian Institute for Researching National Minority Issues,
Cluj-Napoca [Romania]): ‘A “Crisis of Representation” - controlling culture and
public sphere in Ceausescu's Romania’
Session 9D, Room Foster Court 132: (Ab)normal?
Chair: Richard Morgan (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK])
- Anita Kurimay (Rutgers University [USA]): ‘Rehabilitating “Sexual Abnormals”: The
Revolutionary Ideas of the Hungarian Soviet Republic towards Non-normative
Sexualities’
- Simon Pawley (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘Revolution, Nervous Illness and Social Crisis in Russia: 1905 and its
Aftermath’
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee Break
Available in rooms 345 and 346 (3rd floor, SSEES)
11.30-13.00: Parallel Session 10
Session 10A, Room 347: Interwar Extremes
Chair: Malcolm L. G. Spencer (University of Oxford [UK])
- Raul Carstocea (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘Standing on the threshold of a ‘new world’ – the ‘sense-making crisis’
of the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’, Romania’s interwar fascist movement’
- Florian Kührer (University of Vienna [Austria]): ‘Interwar Romania: Permanent crisis
or periodical recurrence? A perceptive approach’
- Johannes Thaler (University of Vienna [Austria]): ‘Conservative Dictatorships and
Fascist Paramilitary – A Comparison of the Interwar Political Crisis in Lithuania and
Austria’
Session 10B, Room 432: The Search for Order in Communist Romania
Chair: Daniel Brett (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
[UK])
- Alex Boican (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
[UK]): ‘Hegemony and the Crisis of Representation. The Evolution of the Romanian
Novel during Communism’
- Andrada Fatu-Tutoveanu (Transilvania University of Braşov [Romania]): ‘Romanian
Culture and the Process of Sovietization (1947-1964) - Case Study: A Crisis of
Identity Reflected in the Late 1940s-1950s Romanian Cultural Periodicals’
- Mara Marginean (Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca [Romania]): ‘Image Crisis,
Economic Interest or ‘Soft Power’? Knowledge Exchange and Buildings on Display
during the First Two Decades of the Cold War in Romania’
Session 10C, Room Foster Court 130: Futurists In Crisis
Chair: Elizabeth A. Harrison (University College London, School of Slavonic and East
European Studies [UK])
- Iva Glisic (University of Western Australia): ‘Philosophers explained the world –
Futurists would change it: The formation of Futurist ideology during the Russian Civil
War 1917-1922’
- Kalle Kangaspunta (University of Jyväskylä [Finland]): ‘Pictorial Russian Avant-garde
Art as Reflection of the Changing State of Affairs’
- James Rann (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘Delivering Prophet in a Crisis: Derivative Models in the Work of
Velimir Khlebnikov’
13.00-14.00: Lunch Break
14.00-15.30: Parallel Session 11
Session 11A, Room 432: The Politics of Order and Crisis
Chair: Susanne Sklepek (University of Nottingham [UK])
- Jakub Jareš (Charles University, Prague [Czech Rep.]): ‘Uncertain Times. The Crisis in
Czechoslovakia 1968–1970 and the example of the “normalization” of the Faculty of
Arts, Charles University’
- Paul McNamara (National University of Ireland, Galway [Ireland]): ‘Trouble in the
Polish ‘Wild West’: The Red Army’s Obstruction of Polish policies of ‘DeGermanization’ and ‘Re-polonization’ in the Baltic ‘Recovered Territories’, 1945-48’
- Corneliu Pintilescu (The Institute for the Cultural and Historical Study of Southeast
Europe, Munich [Germany]): ‘Political Repression and the Crisis of Legality in
Communist Romania. Case Study: The Activity of the Cluj Regional Directorate of the
Securitate (1948-1956)’
Session 11B, Room 347: Crises On The Periphery
Chair: Simon Dixon (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies)
- Iosif Marin Balog (Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca [Romania]): ‘Political Regimes,
Economic Crisis, Continuities and Discontinuities in the Economic Modernization of
Peripheral Regions of the Habsburg Monarchy during the second half of the 19th
Century: A Case Study of Transylvania’
- Bartley Rock (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): 'Responding to a Crisis: Tambov Province and the 1891-92 Russian
Famine'
- Thomas Marsden (University of Oxford [UK]): ‘The Crisis of Religious Toleration in
mid-nineteenth Century Imperial Russia, 1842-55’
Session 11C, Room Foster Court 130: Remembering the Past in Artistic Culture
Chair: Mark Griffiths (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies)
- Alena Hvozdzeva (University of Vienna [Austria]): ‘Latvia – the Case of Permanent
Collective Identity Crisis’
- Jekaterina Shulga (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies [UK]): ‘Crisis of Judgement? Remembering Stalinism in Vasilii Grossman’s,
Iurii Dombrovskii’s and Mikhail Bulgakov’s writing’
- Harriet Hulme (University College London, French Department [UK]): ‘Writing against
the crisis: the end of the Prague Spring and the ‘vacuity of the future’ in the novels
of Milan Kundera’
15.30: Tea/Coffee
Available in rooms 345 and 346 (3rd floor, SSEES)
18.00-19.30: Wine Reception, North Cloisters, UCL Wilkins Building